I recently installed Gloria and am pleased with the speed and responsiveness overall. Firefox works well but I was interested in checking out Opera. I installed it from the repositories and it was successful (Opera plus a lib package were installed - can't remember the exact name of the lib package). When I run Opera, websites take at least a minute and sometimes longer to even start loading. What can I do to make Opera work the way it's supposed to? Thanks in advance.

The value of memory cache was set to automatic. I tried 4 MB, 10 MB, 20 MB, 40 MB, 60 MB and "Off" but browsing remains painfully slow with each value. Any other ideas or will I have to abandon using Opera in Mint? FYI, I have 3 GB of RAM on this machine and Firefox runs well.